On a lighter note, did you notice every time your S.S. check increases,

[UtahPete]

Hi Pete, Re: That's not correct. But, it doesn't matter. You beat me to it. My brother and a number of friends go to the VA and I know that they do not have any 'service connected' disabilities. Jerry Baumchen PS) For over 35 yrs now, I have been saying: The average American voter is uninformed and prefers to stay that way.

Yup. As a boots-on-the-ground Vietnam combat veteran, I get all my medical care at the VA for the last 9 years, ever since they expanded the eligibility to include people like me (not retired military, don't have a combat-related disability, but was in-country in an active war zone). Prior to that, I was exposed to all the horrors of the civilian health-care payment system, with its pre-existing condition exclusions and the like.

The average American voter is uninformed and prefers to stay that way. Exactly; explains a lot of the stupidity of recent years.nojoke

 

[wyliec]

That's not correct. But, it doesn't matter.

I was going to the VA. If I continued to go, I would have been paying what I would have to a private physician for office visits, and any surgery would have been the going rate at non-VA hospitals. I was going to provide a link; but, since you like to argue over every little thing, I won't bother. I have Tricare for Life, which also changes my eligibility and classification with the VA.

 

[UtahPete]

I was going to the VA. If I continued to go, I would have been paying what I would have to a private physician for office visits, and any surgery would have been the going rate at non-VA hospitals. I was going to provide a link; but, since you like to argue over every little thing, I won't bother.

No, I don't. :joke:

 

[wyliec]

Hi Pete,

Re: That's not correct. But, it doesn't matter.

You beat me to it. My brother and a number of friends go to the VA and I know that they do not have any 'service connected' disabilities.

Jerry Baumchen

PS) For over 35 yrs now, I have been saying: The average American voter is uninformed and prefers to stay that way.

Jerry,

I thought for some reason that UP was retired military. But, before they originally let me into the VA for health services (under a waiver), I had to meet a ceiling threshold for income. That came about I believe in 2005. So, if you were lucky enough to enroll in the VA before that year (which I am not sure of), you could have income of any amount and still qualify for VA services. When I was going, I was in a category that had to pay; but, it was no where close to going outside the VA.

I actually wrote a letter to Hillary when she was a Representative of NY. She was useless, and knew less about the VA than she knew about her husband. Bob D., are you snickering at that comment?

 

[UtahPete]

I actually wrote a letter to Hillary when she was a Representative of NY. She was useless, and knew less about the VA than she knew about her husband. Bob D., are you snickering at that comment?

I wouldn't expect any politician to know much about the VA, but I like the comment anyhow. They were both out of touch with the common man.